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21,000 square feet of amazingness where NYC designers can take their ideas from prototype, to production, to market in a community that values ethical production, reducing our environmental impacts and the creation of local jobs.
Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator
Digital Fabrication
Additive/ Subtractive CNC Milling, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, CNC Knitting
3D Printing History
1986 - First 3D Printer for sale in by 3D Systems
2008 - Rep Rap Project “humanity's first general purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine.”
3D Printing Hardware
Hobbyist/ Prosumer $500-$3,500 Professional - $10,000 - $200,000 Industrial - $250,000 - $2,000,000+
3D Printing Methods
-FDM fused deposition modeling
-DMLS direct metal laser sintering
-3DP 3d printing
-SLA stereolithography
-SLS selective laser sintering
Design for 3D Printing
Limitations
-Material Properties
-Speed
-Size
-Cost
3D Printing as a conventional manufacturing primer
3D Printing Examples
Digital Design Tools
Architecture: Rhino/ Grasshopper
Product Design: Solidworks/ Rhino
Gaming Design/ Animation: Zbrush/ Maya
Jewelry Design: Rhino/ Zbrush
Digital Media: Processing
Computer Science: Python/ JavaScript
3D Files
NURBS (points, curves, ctrl pts, surfaces) [vector] Mesh (faces, vertices, edges) [raster]
3D Printing Services
Make Mode Shapeways Red Eye Academic Fab Lab